Draft:National Institute for the Psychotherapies

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) is a psychoanalytically-oriented training institute with a treatment center. Chartered as a non-profit educational facility by the state of New York in 1972, NIP is located in New York City at 71 West 23rd Street.

History
Psychologist Henry Grayson co-founded NIP in 1970, along with psychologists James Fosshage, Kenneth Frank, Clemens Loew, and Henry Lowenheim. The founders envisioned an institute that taught and integrated multiple therapeutic approaches, a philosophy they highlighted by pluralizing the word “psychotherapies” in the institute’s name. Over the next several decades, NIP embraced the collective school of Relational psychoanalysis then emerging in the field of psychotherapy. After 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks, Sandra Shapiro and Jennifer Almouli founded a trauma program at NIP.

Training
NIP runs twelve training programs, including a five-year program for professionals with graduate degrees outside of psychology, medicine or social work (License Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis); a four-year psychoanalytic certification program for mental health professionals; training in trauma treatment; graduate and post-graduate student clinical experiences; and continuing educational programs.

Treatment Center
The Treatment Center at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute (NIPTI) offers individual in-person and telehealth psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment.

Publications
NIP’s professional journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives is published three times annually.